Ashen Stars is the newest full-length, stand-alone GUMSHOE product from RPG legend, Robin D. Laws.
They call you lasers. Sometimes you’re called scrubbers, regulators, or shinestars. To the lawless denizens of the Bleed, whether they be pirates, gangsters or tyrants, you’re known in less flattering terms. According to official Combine terminology, the members of your hard-bitten... [click here for more]

An Accretion Disk forms around massive bodies in space. Gravity drags in random objects and debris, spinning them around and bringing them in closer and closer, faster and faster, hotter and hotter, until something explodes.
It holds true for stars and black holes – and for politics and crime, too.
And let’s face it – you’re the ones who are going to be standing in the path... [click here for more]

On November 2nd, 1936, the world died. Humanity perished, women and men died in their millions. Finally, the stars had come right, and the things that had lurked under the seas for eons rose to claim their rightful place. Now, they rule the earth, stalking it like titans.
Yet you survived this destruction. Some miracle or design left you alive to watch the destruction of everything humanity... [click here for more]

The Terra Nova, last of the great luxury liners from the Combine’s heyday, is dead, a victim of disaster now drifting in the space between worlds.
Her final call echoes across the Bleed. The last of the survivors clutch desperately to life, waiting for rescue.
All but one, that is. One of them waits only for a chance to finish the job, uncovering a secret which the Terra Nova has kept hidden... [click here for more]

Quandos Vorn Must Die!
In an impossibly distant future, our species has dispersed to the stars. Traveling in slender spacecraft, armed with projacs and needle guns, we have settled countless worlds. Cultures are everywhere different, yet propelled in the end by fundamental qualities humankind cannot shed: greed, egoism, pettiness, and a crippling passion for procedure.
Across the vastness... [click here for more]

President Eisenhower established Project Moon Dust in 1953 to locate, contain, and coordinate everything known about the alien presence on Earth.
The Moon Dust Men are the tip of the spear. MAJESTIC-12 aims it. Manage the global war against the aliens with this new GUMSHOE subsystem. Do you build retro-engineered Aurora craft, or bioroids to fight on the Moon? Do you launch satellite... [click here for more]

A new adventure for Ashen Stars from Robin D Laws.
In this scenario of exploration and confrontation in a devastatingly hostile environment, hard-bitten lasers, who know enough not to touch the gooey stuff or take off their helmets in an untested biosphere, investigate the demise of a survey crew doomed by the above mistakes, and more.
The interstellar corporation Shrawley-Gosha Industries offers... [click here for more]

Some mysteries, you really don't want to solve. If the thing at the centre of the labyrinth starts hunting you, you'll wish you'd never started searching in the first place. Some truths are buried for a reason.The sound of claws on metal grew louder. Something scraped at the outside of the sealed hatch.'This is impossible. They're dead.'... [click here for more]

President Eisenhower established Project Moon Dust in 1953 to locate, contain, and coordinate everything known about the alien presence on Earth. The public-relations and open-source arm of Moon Dust was called Project Blue Book. Blue Book ended its work in 1970. It is 1978. Your work never ends. This GUMSHOE campaign frame, Moon Dust Men, can be a sci-fi, conspiracy, or horror game... [click here for more]

Now the war’s over, and you and your crew of freelance effectuators patrol the edge of civilized space, trying to pay the bills while you keep the peace.But the competition in this line is fierce, and sometimes you have to cut corners — which makes you wonder if justice bought and paid for is any justice at all…
The Justice Trade contains three adventures for... [click here for more]

Xeno-Archaeology!
“No other ancient city on Mars had been laid out in that manner; and the strange, many-terraced buttresses of the thick walls, like the stairways of forgotten Anakim, were peculiar to the prehistoric race that had built Yoh-Vombis.”
From the Face on Mars to Precursor artifacts orbiting dead quasars, the mysteries of space aren’t all astrophysical.... [click here for more]

To fight aliens, one must use the alien. Take it apart, reverse-engineer it, rebuild it, turn it into armor and sensors and weapons and aircraft good enough to win a war against an enemy from the stars. Tech and gear for your high-poweredMOON DUST MEN game, powered by a new GUMSHOE “tech tree” subystem for bootstrapping invention and development.
Galileo... [click here for more]

The crew of a starship is caught in the atomless abyss between the stars when it all goes wrong and they must abandon ship. Their only hope: a mysterious derelict which appeared out of the dead of space. To survive, the crew must follow a chain of clues through a nightmare starship, and face a gut-wrenching choice if they ever want to see home again...
An adventure of science fiction horror for... [click here for more]

Planets of Peril and Vengeance, Arranged From A-Z
An impossibly distant future. A vast sprawl of planets, each without parallel, with its own bizarre customs, bedeviling procedures, and wily inhabitants. As one of the implacable revenge-seekers populating The Gaean Reach Roleplaying Game, you know that correct intelligence on these worlds makes all the difference between grim success and howling... [click here for more]

GUMSHOE Zoom: Mind ControlYou are growing very interested.
The GUMSHOE Zoom: Mind Control is intended to model the sorts of stories in which mind control – and especially the contest in and over human minds – takes center stage. This might be a single novel such as George du Maurier’s Trilby or Dan Simmons’Carrion Comfort,... [click here for more]

Included in Bundle are 3 pages from the blasphemous Necronomicon.
Necronomicon Page 76 Eye of the Zombie
"Remove the eyes of the zombie and immerse them in the prepared solution. The caster's eyes are then to be removed during the ritual, and stored in the box described for safety. Next, insert the zombie's eyes into the empty sockets of the Caster. Repeat the incantation... [click here for more]

Necronomicon Page 76 Eye of the Zombie"Remove the eyes of the zombie and immerse them in the prepared solution. The caster's eyes are then to be removed during the ritual, and stored in the box described for safety. Next, insert the zombie's eyes into the empty sockets of the Caster. Repeat the incantation and then thereafter they may perceive events from the perspective of the zombie."... [click here for more]

Necronomicon Page 97 Deep Ones"Deep Ones serve Father Dagon and Mother Hydra, as well as The Great Cthulhu. Land-dwellers who have sought contact with Deep Ones are expected to give female human sacrifices. Deep Ones then mate with the sacrifice and produce hybrid offspring. Human females are seen as little more than breeding stock and once the hybrid is born they are... [click here for more]

Necronomicon Page 143 The Other Gods"These are the nameless larvae of the Other Gods, and like them are blind and without mind, and possessed of singular hungers and thirsts. H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath”
Discovered in Budapest, Hungary, by the famous explorer Stapleton McTavish, it was part of a huge occult book collection of the now... [click here for more]

This is a playtest packet.
This packet is primarily aimed at individuals who already possess and play one of three game systems: Fate, GUMSHOE or Powered by the Apocalypse (aka Apocalyspe World).
If you are not familiar with these games and are still interested in trying this out, you are free to do so but know that full game rules of the basic systems are not included.... [click here for more]